This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions ofKubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.

The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to thefollowing package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10: samba 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.3

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect thenecessary changes.

Details follow:

It was discovered that Samba did not properly perform bounds checkingin certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this toread arbitrary memory contents of the smb process, which could containsensitive infomation or possibly have other impacts, such as a denial ofservice.